Words that come from Proto-Germanic “maiwaz”

134 words across 35 languages descend from Proto-Germanic maiwaz — including mauve, mews, mew, mewing, meow, fulmar, seamew, mauveine.

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English (31)

Swedish (14)

Dutch (11)

Icelandic (10)

German (8)

Old Norse (7)

Norwegian Bokmål (5)

Faroese (4)

Norman (4)

Norwegian Nynorsk (4)

Polish (3)

Middle English (3)

Middle Low German (3)

Middle Dutch (2)

Luxembourgish (2)

Old English (2)

Proto-Germanic (2)

Proto-West Germanic (2)

French (1)

Old Dutch (1)

German Low German (1)

Greek (1)

Westrobothnian (1)

Old French (1)

Romanian (1)

Old Saxon (1)

Middle French (1)

Old Danish (1)

Pipil (1)

Catalan (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Welsh (1)

Ukrainian (1)

Hijazi Arabic (1)

Egyptian Arabic (1)